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He also wrote a book titled 'The Last Lecture', cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Lecture

Highly recommended.

Incoming freshmen to Carnegie Mellon University (atleast when I went in 2008-2012) received a copy of the book.

CMU student here. I can confirm this is still the case.

+1. One of the rare books I like to read every few years.